FinOps 101: Elevating Cloud Cost Optimization for Business Value
The cloud has transformed how enterprises operate, innovate, and scale. Yet with this agility comes a growing challenge: spiraling cloud costs….
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The cloud has transformed how enterprises operate, innovate, and scale. Yet with this agility comes a growing challenge: spiraling cloud costs….
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Migrating from AWS to Azure is a strategic step for businesses aiming to reduce costs, enhance security, and maximize value…
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Cloud Cost Optimization is No Longer Optional Many DevOps teams unintentionally overspend because of always-on environments, underutilized resources, or lack…
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As enterprises rapidly migrate to the cloud, the benefits such as scalability, flexibility, and speed are often overshadowed by one…
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For today’s enterprises, data is not only a fuel for operations, it’s a competitive differentiator. But if that data resides…
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As cloud adoption becomes more mature, businesses are demanding more control over how they consume and save in the cloud….
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The contemporary business thrives on agility, scalability, and innovation, all facilitated by the cloud. However, with this flexibility comes the…
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In today’s volatile digital landscape, financial institutions face an evolving storm of sophisticated cyber threats. Reactive defenses are no longer…
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Every cloud migration service provider stresses the necessity for a solid cloud migration strategy. A systematic plan to move your business’ applications,…
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As businesses ramp up their cloud adoption, they often find that managing cloud expenses becomes just as complex as the…
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As your organization grows, acquires, or restructures, your IT environment must evolve just as precisely. Few transformations carry the weight…
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As enterprises continue their digital transformation journeys, cloud adoption is no longer a question of “if” but “how effectively.” While…
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Managing cloud costs is no longer just about keeping an eye on your monthly bill. For many organizations, it’s a…
Read moreCloud adoption is powering business innovation, but it’s also inflating operational costs. While most enterprises have recognized the importance of…
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FinOps, or cloud financial operations, is not just about trimming expenses. It is a collaborative discipline that brings finance, engineering,…
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Cloud costs are tricky; it’s easy to get lost in the weeds of your bill and not realize where the…
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Moving to the public cloud? Great choice! But before you dive headfirst into the cloud with no safety net, let’s…
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The question often arises: Is FinOps simply cloud optimization with a few extra steps? While this perspective may seem reasonable…
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For growing enterprises, moving their IT environment to the cloud has become inevitable. At the same time, building cloud foundations…
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Cloud services are giants that voraciously devour resources. Yet, amid all this resource utilization there is much untapped potential. Potential…
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In today’s data-driven age, businesses thrive on insights, agility, and decisive action. To achieve this, organizations must empower their teams…
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Ever given thought to the transformative power that reshaping technology can have on businesses? In our rapidly evolving digital landscape,…
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According to Gartner, cloud computing is expected to become a business necessity by 2028. In other words, it will cease…
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Cloud modernization is not simply a buzzword. It is a strategic approach to aligning your enterprise’s cloud infrastructure and application…
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Harnessing the power of the cloud while ensuring fiscal responsibility requires a strategic approach, and FinOps is paving the way…
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All successful cloud modernization projects have one crucial component in common — a capable CIO steering the ship. However, like…
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Aspire Systems’ State of Cloud Report 2023 indicates that 49% of businesses find it hard to keep cloud costs which…
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The right cloud adoption practices empower enterprises to unlock the maximum potential of cloud from enhancing scalability to improving operational…
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Cloud FinOps services are transforming how organizations align their cloud resources and expenditures with their business objectives. According to a…
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Sustainability has become a cornerstone issue, shaping entire industries – and IT is no exception. A recent report by Mordor…
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AWS, the world’s leading cloud platform, is naturally at the forefront of the cloud computing revolution, providing organizations with a…
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One of the most popular cloud migration strategies is lift and shift migration. It is simply “lifting” your existing application…
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The projected compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.23% in the cloud services market from 2023 to 2028 underscores the…
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The cloud helped enterprises break free from the shackles of the limited capacity and poor accessibility of data centers with…
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Cloud computing services have changed how organizations approach IT infrastructure. From the early days of data centers to the rise…
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Cloud optimization services are becoming more prominent as cloud computing continues to dominate the digital landscape. Industry analysts at Gartner…
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The cloud revolution pledged agility, scalability, and cost savings, yet numerous enterprises, post-migration, find these objectives elusive due to insufficient…
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As a strategic leader and a technology enthusiast, you are likely aware of the soaring rate at which the cloud…
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83% of enterprises encounter data migration failures due to poorly deployed cloud migration strategy. With the cloud migration market expected…
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Cloud optimization services have become an indispensable business tool, driving innovation and agility at an unprecedented pace. Their rise in…
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When the year 2020 dawned and the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe, numerous organizations found themselves unprepared and scrambling…
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In the ever-evolving IT landscape, the trajectory of cloud managed services speaks volumes. In 2019, the global market stood at…
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Cloud computing is the backbone of modern businesses, enabling enterprises to quickly scale, and innovate. AWS has emerged the dominant…
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AWS has transformed the IT landscape with its cloud computing services. AWS is not just a cloud service; it’s an…
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The only constant when it comes to the cloud is change. Once you’ve settled in after your cloud application migration,…
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Cloud migration lays the groundwork for a sleeker, more agile, and fortified IT environment. Yet, it’s not uncommon for the…
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Cloud modernization is a dynamic process that continually evolves applications and infrastructure. AWS modernization goes beyond routine improvements; it lets…
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IT leaders who use cloud computing are 14% more likely to exceed organizational performance goals than their peers who do…
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Serverless architecture has emerged as a revolutionary approach to not only building and deploying applications in the cloud, but also…
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Cloud security has become paramount amid the rapid adoption of cloud infrastructure and the push for more cloud-based services. However,…
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The pressure to deliver high-performance applications while keeping latency and costs in check has become more pronounced than ever before…
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In the ever-changing realm of cloud computing, orchestrating financial efficiency is always center stage. Cloud cost optimization services promise agility,…
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Studies showed that between 2001 and 2021, cyber-crime has claimed at least 6.5 million victims with an estimated loss of…
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Every cloud migration service provider stresses the necessity for a solid cloud migration strategy. A systematic plan to move your business’ applications,…
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The challenge of effectively managing and optimizing cloud costs cannot be mitigated with just cloud cost optimization tools. These tools…
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With cloud computing becoming an indispensable part of organizations’ operations, managing costs becomes increasingly challenging. Gartner predicted that by 2024,…
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Businesses are starting to look towards moving their on-premises applications and programs to cloud platforms for various reasons, including security…
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While organizations have increasingly turned to cloud computing services to drive innovation, improve scalability, and reduce operational costs, the growing…
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$8,000,000,000,000 – That’s 8 trillion USD, about a third of the US’ GDP in 2022. This sum is what researchers…
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Cloud computing services have emerged as the beating heart of innovation, enabling businesses to thrive in an ever-evolving digital landscape….
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Cloud cost optimization services have hijacked every conversation in 2023 and most CIOs have their guns trained on cloud waste….
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Leveraging cloud optimization services for business sustainability is like navigating a high-performance, eco-friendly vehicle on a long journey. Just as…
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Your cloud migration strategy can make or break your cloud transformation. At least 50% of cloud migration projects end up…
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Organizations are engaging in on premise to cloud migration with the help of expert cloud migration services to take advantage…
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With the promise of increased efficiency, flexibility, and scalability, more and more organizations are migrating their IT infrastructure and applications…
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Cloud migration involves moving data, applications, and other business elements from an on-premise data center to a cloud-based infrastructure. While…
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Cloud migration provides numerous benefits, including increased scalability, flexibility, and cost savings. However, migrating to cloud can be complex and…
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As more organizations are moving their operations to the cloud, the need for secure cloud migrations services has become paramount….
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As organizations move their operations to the cloud, they face the challenge of migrating their applications and services seamlessly and…
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Businesses looking to optimize their operations are best served by efficient cloud migration services. However, despite the widespread adoption of…
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DevOps has become an increasingly popular approach to software development and deployment as organizations shift towards cloud-based infrastructures. Cloud migration…
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The cloud has transformed the way businesses operate and has become a fundamental component of modern-day IT infrastructure. As organizations…
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Today’s cloud technology provides many options for businesses to optimize their operations and maximize their return on investment. This article…
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Right-sizing your AWS instance is a necessity when it comes to running a successful cloud-based application. It can help you…
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Cloud computing is becoming increasingly popular and powerful for businesses, but managing cloud costs can be challenging. However, automation and…
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Any real time application is going to require more than 1 resource for its operation – for example a web…
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Network security is crucial in today’s digital-first world. Technologies like cloud computing, IoT, and edge computing have eased operations and…
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AWS cloud security is one of the most important parts of the infrastructure. AWS is constantly adding new features and…
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The requirement for cloud data security has become crucial with the increased adoption of cloud computing by organizations irrespective of…
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Cloud-based storage is a critical component of any enterprise IT infrastructure. It’s what allows your organization to share data across…
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is among the most popular cloud platform and is known to be the most comprehensive. Businesses,…
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The role of storage infrastructure is undeniable in the ever-evolving world of technology. Whether it is a high-performing computer system…
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Whether it is data storage, web deployment, or any IT development, businesses have largely migrated towards cloud for most of…
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According to RightScale, about 7% from the gross cloud expenditure is wasted on unused storage volumes and snapshots. AWS has…
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Lambda is a computing platform by Amazon Web Services that runs code as a response to events. It is serverless…
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In the current economical climate, all Cloud users are constantly on the look out for optimization techniques to improve performance…
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AWS has been taking up centre stage for business-critical applications, meanwhile Oracle Database happens to see a lot of investment…
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More businesses are switching to database-as-a-service platforms for faster and more scalable deployments at a lower cost, making AWS cloud…
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Migrating to the cloud involves several steps and can be a challenge for any enterprise unless you’ve a trustworthy orchestrator…
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Like the name suggests, application migration is the process of moving an application from one environment to another. It can…
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The question is – What can enterprises do to get more value from their cloud investments? The answer to this…
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There are numerous benefits to moving from physical servers to cloud-based solutions. If you’re considering migrating your data and applications…
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If we go by statistics, by the year 2025, the data stored in Cloud data centers will exceed 100 zettabytes….
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Have you chosen AWS as your cloud service provider? Many enterprises like yours have gone the AWS Cloud way for…
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The Application Migration Service is an AWS service that helps you to migrate your application from one AWS region to…
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is world’s leading Cloud platform with more than one million active users, who have access to…
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As the name suggests, Microservices are a composition of smaller independent services that can communicate over well-defined APIs. Microservices offer…
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AWS CloudFormation is a vital cog in provisioning and managing AWS assets in a templated and redundant manner with infrastructure…
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Azure, a cloud computing ecosystem, enables users to create websites and mobile applications, access databases, launch virtual servers, and more….
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With Terraform making its way as a popular IaC tool to define and provision the complete infrastructure, there has been…
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Do you believe cloud computing is quite expensive for you? You’re not alone. 58% companies agree with you. Fortunately, Microsoft…
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With organizations looking for more flexible backend solutions, NoSQL databases are gaining traction. The sophistication of big data and the…
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A minor interruption of service could prove to be a disaster for an organization, resulting in huge amounts of data…
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Constructing and managing your cloud infrastructure manually can be a quite daunting task especially when you are operating as a…
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If you are looking for a multitude of container orchestration offerings, AWS provides best-in-class services for managing and deploying containers,…
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While more and more organizations are moving their infrastructure and application workloads to the cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has…
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Databases are the fulcrum of applications and a crucial part of business infrastructure. Database administrators (DBAs) across organizations are thriving…
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To stay competitive in today’s business landscape, businesses need to be nimble and ready to face the ever-changing business requirements….
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Cloud Automation refers to the process of replacing manual cloud operations with automation. One of the most important reasons why…
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Dealing with information on the cloud means dealing with security threats and issues. For example, the Equifax data breach of…
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The need for cloud computing has become inevitable in today’s business scenario with many employees accessing more and more data…
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A Gartner forecast predicts that by 2021, over 75% of midsize/large organizations will have adopted a hybrid IT strategy. That’s…
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In our last blog post on AWS vs. GCP vs. Azure’s hybrid cloud capabilities, we covered four of the most…
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In a hybrid cloud setup, storage and computing infrastructure are composed of both private and public cloud computing systems. The…
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Regardless of the size, many organizations are considering migrating data center workloads to the cloud the top priority. It is…
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“Behind every cloud is another cloud.” The Wizard of Oz star Judy Garland’s quote also extends to cloud computing, especially…
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Over the last decade, cloud migration has been transforming the way enterprises approach their IT infrastructure. Enterprises have been very…
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Siva Chandrababu, Technical Architect at Aspire Systems, was recently selected as an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Amazon Partner Network (APN)…
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Rajkumar Murugesan, Cloud Practice Manager at Aspire Systems, was recently selected as an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Amazon Partner Network…
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Both Containers and Virtual Machines are used to create isolated virtual environments for developing and testing applications or software. As…
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You’ve gone through countless articles and documents on cloud migration to find out if it’s the right fit for your…
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As we all know, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data…
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Over the past few years, we have witnessed that the use of Microservices as a means of driving agile best…
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Cloud cost optimization is essential for correctly selecting and assigning the right resources to a workload or application. When workload…
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Serverless Architecture Implementation – Top Use Cases 1. Building Web Applications You can build serverless web applications and back end…
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Google Catches up to AWS and Azure – Launches its New Serverless Database Migration Service! Google Cloud has recently, announced…
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You have to keep your head in the cloud if you want your company to succeed online. The best thing…
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Serverless computing adoption has been skyrocketing in cloud and according to Gartner 20% of enterprises would shift to serverless computing…
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Cloud migration has become inevitable in today’s fast-paced world to meet market demands. Many companies consider it to be one…
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Oracle, despite being popular is prompting companies to shift to open source alternatives, due to its expensive maintenance, support and…
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The cloud technology has been witnessing an impeccable growth contributing to the speed of tech-adoption and a drastic shift to…
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If you are a CTO of an organization and you consult your Database (DB) admins regarding improvement of the DB…
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Businesses around the world have faced different disasters in different region. These disasters raise questions on Data protection and business…
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How important is it to cut cost in the current pandemic situation? A question worth a million, can save millions….
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Are you looking for a solution that handles unpredictable workloads in the Azure SQL Database? Is your cost going high…
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The year is 2025. Progress in cloud-based technologies has accelerated multifold everywhere except in Cynicalville. This place is populated by…
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Why Application Insights now? If Azure cloud service performance is not working for you in terms of performance and speed…
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This article describes the Azure automation processes such as Runbook that can help manage VMs automatically, and enabling you to…
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Anyone in the IT industry can relate to the term ‘agility’ one way or the other. But, what is ‘Cloud…
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System admin Richard walks into the office one fine morning to learn that 10 people have joined on the same…
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Most of the applications are architected around RestAPIs these days, be it for layering or for integration. All leading web…
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Stack Overflow receives more than 670 million page views per month and they achieve sub-second performance for all their pages….
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Azure has been constantly adding more and more services horizontally. From where it started as a narrowed PAAS for simple…
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Azure’s web and business editions are going to be sunset from September 2015. You can notice the alert message of…
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All these days we have been buying mobile phones from Amazon, but now you can get Mobile as a Service from Amazon…
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We would all agree that ASP.NET has come a long way from its first version. IMO the next version Asp.Net…
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Growing Need for High scalability It’s amazing to look at how application architectures have evolved over the past decade. The…
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With the web 2.0, online authentication has evolved. Social networking platforms provide unique opportunity for online businesses to bring their…
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This post is a synopsis of the best practices suggested by the market leaders. It serves as a basic guidelines…
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What is the nature of the security issues you might face while delivering your solution on Cloud? The Cloud Security…
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Sometimes risk is compensated with opportunity” – this statement is true for any business. However, when it comes to “cloud”…
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Cloud migration can pose a lot of questions – Which applications to migrate? Which public or private clouds? Which applications…
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One of the most unique and critical feature of Cloud is it’s “Elasticity”. The very nature of SaaS applications being…
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Gartner has predicted 18-20% growth in SaaS market, and expects it to hit US $22.1 billion by the year 2015….
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Do you know that a very small percentage of SaaS businesses are profitable, including those that have been in the…
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Whether software vendors like it or not, today they don’t have a choice other than providing atleast one version of…
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Abstract With the increasing trend in on-demand consumption, SaaS business model has started becoming the de-facto standard for delivering software…
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This is the 3rd part of the blog series discussing on benchmarking the maturity of a SaaS solution. Click the following…
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If you have decided to develop a SaaS application, the main focus is to build your domain functionalities and take…
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While building a SaaS application, it’s extremely important to support other gateways to access the application features. In today’s world…
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In continuation to my earlier blog on benchmarking the maturity of a SaaS solution where I talked about 4 segments through which…
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In my previous blog we discussed about the first 5 features that ISVs should check out while choosing their subscription…
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“SaaS” – once such a disputed topic, has now been widely accepted. The increase in the adoption as well as the…
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Subscription management encompasses a wide area of operational activities involved in a SaaS business model. While there are several subscription…
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There are several strategies available for ISVs to build/migrate their products to a SaaS model. However, each approach has its…
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Subscription management is one of the under estimated areas in SaaS model. SaaS ISVs tend to focus more on the…
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When ISVs move from an on-premise model to a SaaS model, it is quite common to take the route of Single…
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Today Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is considered by many IT buyers as a feasible choice to attain cost efficiency and better service….
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“Multitenancy” refers to a principle in software architecture where a single instance of the software runs on a server, serving multiple client organizations (tenants)” –…
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Cloud has redefined the way solutions are built across all facets of IT. Other than improving the business process efficiency…
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Let me begin with a small introduction to SaaS. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is a form of software consumption, where the application…
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In my previous blog I have discussed about the single tenant vs. multi-tenant , and how one can objectively decide which…
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Cloud adoption has been one of the most trending topic for everyone – right from Enterprises to ISV to Individual….
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We are happy to announce that Aspire has recently signed an all India Azure Circle Partnership with Microsoft and has…
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“Gartner: SaaS Revenue Growth to Top 17 Percent in 2012” “IDC Asia-Pacific: Companies should take the hype over SaaS “with…
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Moving an application to cloud can be as simple as a click of a button but at times can also…
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Software as a Service is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are hosted centrally (typically…
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Big Data is a term used to refer huge volumes of data that belong to one logical entity. The volumes…
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“As per PwC-CII survey, about 34% of IT users are planning to avail platform BPO services for benefits like operational…
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Cloud is a magic wand that everybody wants to consider to cut down their cost. Cloud itself is a bigger…
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Cloud Computing is defined as a style of computing where scalable and elastic IT-enabled capabilities are delivered as a service…
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You must have come across umpteen articles that talks about the technical aspects between a single tenant model and multi…
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In my last blog I discussed about what a Platform BPO is about and the various requirements it brings up….
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Platform BPO refers to a suite of technology that can help BPOs in designing, developing and deploying their applications, which…
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Scalability at the database layer has always been a challenging task for architects. Sadly, this also happens to be one…
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Many would know that Amazon is one of the leading IaaS providers and they offer different configurations of server Instances…
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Many would know that multi-tenancy is an architectural pattern where a single installation of the software can serve multiple tenants….
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This phrase is very true in the case of cloud. So long when architects design an application they always think…
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SaaS business model offers a fantastic platform to service the world market, irrespective of the location of the customer. Unlike…
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In my previous blog I discussed about the business/technical aspects in single tenant and multi-tenant models. However, due to huge…
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There are totally 4 maturity models/levels in which you can deliver a SaaS application/product. Single Tenant In a single tenant…
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In the first part I discussed about IaaS – highlights and challenges. In this part I will try to do…
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As you may know, “Cloud” has become one of the most confusing terminology in the recent times. If you ask…
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Architecting an application has always been a challenge for the very fact that any mistakes done at this level can…
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